Jimmy Chin Quotes

The way we approached Meru, and the way we approach a lot of these mountains, is with humility. A sense of, 'Is it going to give us passage?' Your mental attitude can affect the outcome.

Jimmy Chin

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The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.

John Mortimer

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It's necessary to understand what real intelligence work is. It will never cease. It's absolutely essential that we have it. At its best, it is simply the left arm of healthy governmental curiosity. It brings to a strong government what it needs to know. It's the collection of information, a journalistic job, if you will, but done in secret.

John le Carre

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Life is very good. I'm the president and Chief Executive Officer of the Wireless trade association, the CTIA.

Steve Largent

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The American boy starts swinging the bat about as soon as he can lift one.

Tris Speaker

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The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

Lou Holtz

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At the end of the day, it seems like there's a critic archetype for food movies, like with 'Ratatouille' or anything. You know, if you were doing a puppet show about chefs, one puppet would be the chef, one would be the critic.

Jon Favreau

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Mary Jo and I have three teenagers who are in their last years at home. In addition, I was just offered and accepted a position with Williams College as a visiting lecturer on leadership beginning in February 2017, and anticipate accepting other academic positions shortly.

Chris Gibson

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Drawing was a cheap way for me to express myself. It gave a focus to my thinking and my life from a very early age.

Chris Renaud

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Now, I am perfectly willing to just enjoy my career by choosing roles simply because I consider them to be a challenge and doing the best possible job I can.

Cicely Tyson

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I think in the past, around the time that method acting became so prevalent, it used to be that American actors were thought to be the kind that would work more from the inside out, and that the English actors worked more from the outside in.

Annette Bening

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A liar is always lavish of oaths.

Pierre Corneille

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I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

Thomas Carlyle

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